Mar 22 2023
March 2023 On 11 March, over two hundred fifty participants celebrated the Centennial Gala for His Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) STAR, Hamilton’s Naval Reserve Division at LIUNA Station. The architecturally grand former Canadian National Railway station on James Street North, now a banquet facility called LiUNA Station, has been around almost as long as HMCS …
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Mar 16 2023
March 2023 Not far from the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara Falls, Ontario, is the former Lyons Creek Elementary School. Opened in 1955 at as two-room school, it saw the addition of two additional rooms in 1959. The small school had a brief life, as declining enrolment throughout the 1960s resulted in the Niagara District School …
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Mar 15 2023
March 2023 Raymore Drive is a peaceful residential street along the Humber River in the Toronto, Ontario, suburb of Etobicoke, one that dead-ends at Raymore Park. Looking at the area today, one could hardly tell that sixty-eight years ago, it was the site of the deadliest natural disaster in Canadian history. On 15 October 1954, …
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Mar 14 2023
Published in the Toronto Sun, 27 March 2023 If the solution to effectively combating the escalating violence on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) property is more patrols by Toronto Police, whether on paid-duty or not, then maybe it’s time for the TTC to admit that TTC Special Constables should be elevated to full-fledged police officers, or …
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Mar 05 2023
March 2023 The Oculus Pavilion in Etobicoke, Ontario, also known as the South Humber Park Pavilion, is a one-of-a-kind pavilion that almost seems out of place in a public park. With its fantastical space-age modernist design, the pavilion looks like something you would see at a science or space museum. Built in 1959 in the …
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Mar 01 2023
March 2023 Remember back three years ago when we were told that closing the border due to Covid-19 was racist and ineffective; that vaccines would prevent us from getting Covid-19; that masks were unnecessary, until they were; that Covid-19 originated from infected bats at a Wuhan wet market? Oh, and don’t forget the declaration that …
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Feb 28 2023
February 2023 The former Village of Port Credit, now part of Mississauga, Ontario, is a historic port community along the north shore of Lake Ontario. Dating back to 1834, when Port Credit was created from land bought from the Mississauga Ojibwe band, at the mouth of the Credit River, the harbour was a busy port …
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Feb 24 2023
February 2023 The unincorporated Village of Kilbride, is now a tranquil residential community, found in the rural north end of Burlington, Ontario. Founded in 1854, it was named after a town in County Wicklow Ireland. Like most small towns, where everyone felt safe and knew everyone else, little of any consequence happened in Kilbride. All …
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Feb 18 2023
February 2023 Don Lemon comments about “Women in their Prime.” Wow!! Just when you thought you’d heard all the offensive comments that a man could possibly make about women, Don Lemon gives us his own “Hold my Beer” moment. During a discussion on the 16 February edition of “CNN This Morning,” Lemon made comments regarding …
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Feb 17 2023
February 2023 On 17 February, Justice Paul Rouleau released his Public Order Emergency Commission report, related to the invocation of the Emergencies Act in February 2022, and it’s a mixed bag. While I disagree with Justice Rouleau’s finding that invoking the Emergencies Act was justified, I’m pleased to hear that, amongst other points, that he …
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